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Racing Language, Languaging Race A Symposium sponsored by the Center for Race and Ethnicity (CREAL) at Stanford University May 3-4, 2012

In addition to a poster session, the symposium will also include presentations from 22 speakers and discussants in three broad areas: Race and Ethnicity in Sociolinguistics, Race and Ethnicity in Linguistic Anthropology, and Race and Ethnicity in Language Education. For a list of presenters and other information, see the CREAL website:

Abstracts are invited for the poster session to be held at the start of a two-day symposium on 'Racing Language, Languaging Race,' to be held at Stanford University, Thursday May 3 to Friday May 4, 2012.

Abstracts for posters relating to the conference theme, should be no more than 300 words, and should be submitted by March 23 to CREALconferencestanford.edu.

Decisions about accepted posters will be communicated by March 30.

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